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No. 6l4,609. Patented Nov. 22, I898. P. J. DEMPSEY.

SHIRRED FABRIC.

!App1ica.ticn filed July 13, 1898.)

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(No Model.)

ATTORNEYS L UNITED STATES.

PATENT @FFICE.

PATRICK J. DEMPSEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE KURSIIEEDT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SHIRRED FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 614,609, dated Nove1nbe1'22, 1898.

Application filed July 13,1898. Serial No. 685,822. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PATRICK J. DEMPSEY, of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirred Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to corded shirred fabrics, and has for its object to produce a corded shirred fabric in which the cord is embraced by the fabric and the shirring is effected at the time the fabric is made and held firmly in place by stitches, as will be described.

My invention will be understood by referring to the .accompanying drawings, in Which-"- Figure 1 shows a corded shirred fabric embodying my invention, the same being the right side. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the rear face or wrong side of the said shirred fabric, showing clearly the character of the shirring and the course of the threads. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 shows another form of my invention.

In the drawings, a is a fabric, and b the shirring strings or threads. The fabric a, is shown as gathered or puckered into puckers c and held in place by means of stitching cl 2 f. In the present instance the stitching is shown as follows: The threads (:1 6 pass through the fabric in loops 9 h, the threads being continuous between the loops, which loops are held in place by a binder or shuttle thread f. This binder or shuttle thread f passes through a loop g, thence crosses the cord 1), thence passes through a loop h, thence again crosses the cord 11, passing behind the loop g, through which it formerly passed, thence extends alongside the cord to the next loop g, which it passes through as before, thence crosses the cord and passes through the next loop h, thence crosses the cord and passes behind the loop g, which it formerly entered, and so on seriat'im. The fabric embraces the cords, forming lines or wales of corded structure.

The shirring may be done by a machine having two needles with needle-threads d e and a shuttle carrying a shuttle-thread f.

The fabric aand the cords b are fed from the machine and the cords sewed in place by the threads d, e, and f, the puckers being produced and held firmly in place by the said threads as the shirred fabric is being formed. When the shirred fabric is thus constructed, the puckers will be permanent and the said fabric may be out transversely at any point without disturbing the set of the puckers, which could not be done where the puckers were produced by drawing the cords Z9, as was formerly done. In fact, one or more of the cords b may be drawn out of the fabric and the puckers will still be kept in place by the threads cl 6 f, which could not be done in shirred fabric formerly produced by stitching the fabric in place on the cords and then drawing the cords to produce the puckers.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a structure wherein the cords b are secured in the fabric and run longitudinally thereof in undulated or serrated lines, the fabric being produced in the manner above described. In the old shirring process just described, wherein the cords were drawn, it was impossible to produce a fabric of the character shown in Fig. 4.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let- 7 5 ters Patent, is-- 1. A corded shirred fabric comprising in its structure a puckered fabric a, cords run I ning longitudinally thereof and embraced by the fabric a on the wrong side of the shirred structure, stitching passing through the fabric and securing the fabric to the cords and holding the puckers of the fabric a firmly in place, whereby the right side of the structure exhibits wales of puckered shirred fabric formed about the cords.

2. A corded shirred fabric comprising a puckered fabric a, cords running longitudinally thereof in undulated or serrated paths and embraced by the fabric on the wrong side of the shirred structure, the said fabric being secured to the cords and its puckers held firmly in place by stitching, substan tially as described.

3. As a new and useful article of manu= facture, the herein-described shirred fabric,

consisting of a fabric a, cords I) arranged at tion, substantially as described and for the intervals and running longitudinally of the purposes set forth. fabric, the said fabric having puckers 0 permanently held in place by threads d e pass- PA FRIGK DEMPSEY' 5 ing through the fabric and a locking-thread Witnesses:

flocking the said threads d e in place, the THOMAS J. GREEN, said threads d e f binding the cords in posi- EDWIN F. ELIASON. 

